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Lesson Plan
Inferring with Visual Elements
Your ELs will practice drawing connections between illustrations and relevant text in a story in order to make inferences. This lesson can be a stand-alone resource or it can be paired with the lesson Analyzing Visual Elements.
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Objectives
Academic
- Students will be able to make connections between visual elements and the text.
- Students will be able to draw inferences from a text.
Language
Students will be able to make inferences about visual elements with introductory phrases using a graphic organizer and paragraph frame.
Introduction
(5 minutes)
- Show the picture from the Drawing Conclusions worksheet. Then, inform students that just by looking at this picture, they can find clues about the 5 W's ("who," "what," "when," "where," "why"). Call on students to share their ideas about this scene.
- Tell students that in order to really know what's going on in this picture, they would need to read the part of the story that goes along with the picture.
- Tell them that today they're going to be using clues that they find from both the text and pictures in a story to make inferences about that story.
- Display the worksheet I Can Make Inferences: Concept Web in a highly visible place in your classroom and read the different parts of the web.
- Tell your students that during this lesson, they'll be reading parts of the book Freedom Summer and using a graphic organizer and sentence frames to write inferences.